Why “horologer” is a great word
HOROLOGER — [Noun] A person skilled in horology, specifically a maker or repairer of clocks and watches. From Middle English orloger, from Middle French orlogier, equivalent to horology (from Latin horologium, 'timepiece', from Greek hōrologion, from hōra, 'time, hour' + -logion, 'saying, study') + the agent suffix -er. Unlike "watchmaker," which narrows the craft to portable timepieces, or "horologist," which broadens to a more theoretical professional air, "horologer" evokes the arcane workshop where all timekeepers are given life. It is the patient finger adjusting a verge escapement, the steady eye aligning the teeth of a brass escape wheel, and the soft click of a restored case closing over a newly beating heart—the quiet defiance of entropy through the maintenance of tiny, ordered universes.